CASH 32nd Annual Conference

February 21 to 24, 2011
Sacramento Convention Center/ Hyatt Regency, CA

Contact: California's Coalition for Adequate School Housing (CASH)

For more information, visit the CASH website. Join CHPS for our presentation at the Conference!

HP Modernizations - Your Next Green School is Already Built
Wednesday, February 23rd from 9:00 to 10:30 AM

This may be the worst time for our schools since many of them were built. Budgets are being axed. Teachers laid off. Facility staff drastically cut. Demands on our facilities escalating. School libraries and even entire schools are being considered for closure. Even with all of these challenges, there are many opportunities to improve the condition of our existing schools.

Learn seven strategies for overcoming the hurdles and avoiding the pitfalls to making your next modernization project high performance. Discover how the new partnership between CHPS and the Division of the State Architect (DSA) will help to obtain the maximum new High Performance Incentive (HPI) funding and achieve the best high performance learning environment possible. Gain the latest information to save operating revenue and maintain performance following construction.

Presenters

William "Bill" Orr, C.E.G
CHPS Executive Director

William "Bill" Orr became the leader of CHPS in July 2009, after working for the state of California for almost thirty years. For a majority of career in state government, Bill worked for the California Integrated Waste Management Board where he managed their Green Building and Environmentally Preferable Purchasing programs from 2000-2007.

On the CHPS Board from 2002 to 2007, Bill was the head of the CHPS Technical Committee from its inception through 2007. During that time, he led the development of the 2006 Edition of the CHPS Criteria for California and was on the national LEED for Schools committee. Bill was inducted into the California Green Schools Hall of Fame in 2007 for his pioneering work with CHPS. Bill is a registered Engineering Geologist in California.

Rob Samish, AIA, LEED
Lionakis

Rob Samish is a Senior Associate in the Education Studio at Lionakis, an architectural, engineering and planning firm based in California. Rob has maintained a long-standing involvement in sustainable architecture over his twenty-eight year career in architecture. He was the project manager for Alder Creek Middle School, which was one of California's first demonstration schools for CHPS. He has presented numerous workshops dealing with various aspects of green high performance school design - green renovation projects, daylighting, high performance modular classroom criteria, and what the latest post-occupancy studies say about green buildings.

Rob is on the CHPS Board of Directors, is a member of the High Performance Planning Committee for California's K-12 advocacy organization Coalition for Adequate School Housing (CASH) and also a member of the Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI).